Process of forming and tagging wire ties.



A. IVI. BATES.

PROCESS OF FORIVHNG AND TAGGING WIRE TIES. APPLICATION FILED IIILIIs. IQIII.

LDELIVER M. BATES, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS,

ASSIG-NOR T0 BATES VALVE BAG PROCESS 0F FRMNG AND TAGGINE( NERE TIES.

Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented May 2, Mlle?.

Application filed July 16. ISM. Serial No. 351,28.

all t1/0m t may concern:

lle 1t known that l, -illumina M. Earns. a citizen ot' the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county ot' Cook and atate ot Illinois. have invented a certain neW and useful Improvement in Processes of Formingl and Tagging Wire Ties, ot' which the following,r is a specification.

use to which my invention is applicable illustrates its character, and ,l wish, therefore. to explainthe invention'hy referring to its use in connection with cement bags.

These bags are eonnnonly sectned at the open end by means of a wire tie twisted about the bag;v to tie the material. It is desirahle to associate with such bag a tag, as, tor instance, a lag setting i'orth the nature and quality and perhaps giving a guarantee in connection with the contents. lt is a burdensome, expensive operation to attach such to the bag or to print the statement on the bag. lf the latter is done, then the bag,r may he refilled with other than the proper material and, in short, is to an extent unlitted for :further use. It is also an expensive and dillicult process to attach the tag to the wire tie after the latter is man1i'lfactured'. It will be understood, of course. that these things are done on a very large scale and the trilling cost or expense connected with any given operation runs into a large sum when dealinor with thousands, hundreds of thousands, and even millions of packages. y

The object of my invention, therefore, is to furnish 'to the trade a'suitahle Wire tie with a tag attached thereto.

There are many reasons why it is not desirable to provide the tag.,Y with a hole sulieiently7 large to admit the looped end ot' the tie. Therefore, the tagl and tie are united in the process of .making the tie.

The product is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein- Figure l is an elevation of the tie with tag attached; Fig. 2 is an elevation. of the saine shown diagrammatically in the proef ess of manufacturing.

Like partsl are indicated by the same letter in all the figures.

A is the body of a `wire tie having, the loop ends B, B.

C is the tag having a small aperture D through which the bodyof the tie is inserted. The complete tie, of course, so arranged is, as it were, inseparable from the tag, for neither can he separated from the other. These will be made up in large quantities for a given manufacturer and his employees have no additional labor to perorni. They simply apply the Wire tie in the usual forni and the tag attached thereto and printed With the matter required will thus be secured in place.

li, E are mutilated feeding rolls operating on the wire l? which is passed betwech the cuttingr edges (nl, G through the loop forming device H, through the hole in the tag C, through the loop forn'iing device J 'and slightly beyond the saine. The mechanism is now operated to forni the loops on the end of the tie and to sever it from the wire l", whereupon the product of tl` process will assume the form shown in Fig. i. Obviously the whole operation could be carried on by any kind of a mechanism or even by hand. l have shown the tar,r as perforate and the tie passed through the perforation. I have shown the tie with its body ends terminati ingI in loops too large to admit the end ot' the tie. 'l` he tag may have an extension or other part so that the eye or aperture may .not be just as shown in the drawing. The wire tie in any event is passed through the opening or the tag is threaded thereupon.

The operation can be 'arried on by any desired torni of mechanism, or by hand. The result is in any case a tie ready to he applied to the bag and containing or carrying permanently attached thereto a tag.

Of course, these ties can be usedor any desired purpose. I have simply suggested a cement hat,r as an illustration. They may be used for securing various substances. I do not wish, therefore, to he limited to the particular forni or shape of the wire tie or tag orthe particular niechanisn'i-or means hy which they are united, nor to any particular kind ot' tie or one adapted to be secured in position or used by means ot any particular form tool.

I claim:

l. The process of formingF and tagging wire ties, which consists in holding' a perforate tag vin fixed position, then passingr a length of wire through the perforation, and cutting off a tie blank therefrom. and then upsettinfr the two ends of the blank and forming `enlarged heads thereon each larger than the perforation in the tag.

2. The process of forming and tagging in testimony Whoi'eof, l ai: my signature wire ties, Whichoonsist's' in holding a per# in the presence of two witnesses this 14th 1o Y fomit?! ta vfixcl polsition, the? passing s day of July 1914.

1 'iigt o wir@ t rougi the er orution anc f I3 Cutting ofi a tie blank therelrom', and then ADELMER M BATES' upsetting the tWo ends of the' blank and Witnesses:

forming them into closed loops each larger BESSIE S. RICE,

than the peijforation in the tag. GENEVA Hm'iu. 

